Drones hit two ships off Bulgaria's coast, search and rescue ongoing as one sank

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Drones hit two ships off Bulgaria's coast, search and rescue ongoing as one sank  Drones hit two ships off Bulgaria's coast and one of them sank, with the crew missing, the day after another drone attack sank a ship near Romania's shore in the Black Sea, in two consecutive drone attacks on NATO's Eastern flank countries.  READ MORE : http://www.euronews.com/2026/10/06/drones-hit-two-ships-off-coast-of-bulgaria-as-government-calls-emergency-meeting  Subscribe to our channel. Euronews is available on Dailymotion in 12 languages

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00:00A search is underway in the Black Sea for the crew of a cargo ship that sank after drone struck

00:05two commercial vessels in Bulgaria's exclusive economic zone.

00:09Bulgarian Prime Minister Ruman Radev called the incident unacceptable.

00:46The attacks happened early on Tuesday around seven nautical miles east of the town of Biala.

00:52The crew of the Bulgarian ferry Dioskuria saw an explosion and sailed to the scene, finding an overturned lifeboat and

00:59lifejackets, but no crew members.

01:02Officials have not said how many people were aboard the sunken ship. A second vessel caught fire after being struck.

01:08All 18 crew members were rescued, 11 Turkish and 7 Indian nationals.

01:13Bulgaria has deployed naval and aerial assets for the search operation.

01:18Authorities have not said who launched the drones.

01:25The

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